So here’s a table you might want to use in your next science fiction or plane hopping campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I came up with this while starting to prep for a science fiction campaign I’m planning to run some time soon. It’ll use the Traveller5<\/em> rules set, but that’s just a side note. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So right now I try to read as much science fiction stuff as I manage, things like Dune<\/em> of course, various stories by Poul Anderson, Jack Vance,<\/em> parts of the Darkover Series<\/em> by Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/em>. I also binge the original Star Trek<\/em> series for inspiration, and I marvel at pictures of imagined futuristic and psychedelic landscapes. Do an image search for “science fiction landscapes” or “psychedelic landscape” … see what I mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I adore those retro-futuristic, quite possibly substance induced visions <\/span>of the future, conceived in our own 1960ies to 1980ies<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Just in case you don’t know what d66 stands for: this is a random table to be used with two six sided dice. Roll once for each collumn, and just roll two regular dice and read the first one as tens (a 5 becomes 50 for example) and the second die as ones (just read as is). You could use differently colored dice, so you can tell which one denotes the tens. I simply roll which ever two dice I can grab and read the one that lands more leftish of the other as tens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have fun spacing out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So here’s a table you might want to use in your next science fiction or plane hopping campaign. I came up with this while starting to prep for a science fiction campaign I’m planning to run some time soon. It’ll use the Traveller5 rules set, but that’s just a side note. So right now I … <\/p>\n\n
\n \nd66<\/th>\n The land \u2026<\/th>\n The sky \u2026<\/th>\n Over the horizon \u2026<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n 11<\/td>\n coagulated caramel<\/td>\n greyish purple<\/td>\n a spherical station<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 12<\/td>\n spined blood colored hills<\/td>\n color of thick dark blood<\/td>\n a majestic dragonlike flyer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 13<\/td>\n blockish hills like colorful toffees<\/td>\n a deeper blue<\/td>\n the hazy view of a ringed planet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 14<\/td>\n green rolling hills<\/td>\n foggy anthrazite dust<\/td>\n a distant tubular structure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 15<\/td>\n lush tropical forrest<\/td>\n a freakish green<\/td>\n myriads of tiny insects<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 16<\/td>\n endless patterns of industrial structures<\/td>\n a gradient of cobalt blue to sparkling cyan<\/td>\n a moon that appears too close<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 21<\/td>\n endless waves of industrial waste<\/td>\n the color of sulfur<\/td>\n shuttles trafficking<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 22<\/td>\n flat with occasional polyhedral shapes<\/td>\n monotonous light blue<\/td>\n a disk shaped station<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 23<\/td>\n like the rendering in an 8 bit computer game<\/td>\n sepia colored with feathery pink clouds<\/td>\n some batlike flyers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 24<\/td>\n a rough desert<\/td>\n like colored inks bleeding into each other<\/td>\n foreboding dark clouds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 25<\/td>\n swampy with occasional cone shaped hills<\/td>\n almost white<\/td>\n the cube like silhuette of the high port<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 26<\/td>\n a sea of turquois doted with myriads of steep hilled islands<\/td>\n a crisp blue with floating ice crystals<\/td>\n egg shaped pods traveling silently along invisible lanes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 31<\/td>\n an endless storm beaten ocean<\/td>\n a cold blue mist<\/td>\n a distant air ship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 32<\/td>\n a sprawling metropolis<\/td>\n hazy red<\/td>\n large birdlike creatures, homing in on their nests for sun down<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 33<\/td>\n wavey hills of reflecting metal<\/td>\n eternally black, an endless starfield<\/td>\n streaks of toxic industrial smoke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 34<\/td>\n oddly peaceful rural idyll<\/td>\n overcast with dense clouds<\/td>\n a massive globular structure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 35<\/td>\n a maze of deep gorges and canjons<\/td>\n purple with yellow clouds<\/td>\n a perfect rainbow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 36<\/td>\n hills like burned sienna and a meandering river of quicksilver<\/td>\n a wierd multicolored haze<\/td>\n a strip of green light<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 41<\/td>\n a lattice of multilayered longitudinal structures<\/td>\n a perfect gradient of blues<\/td>\n two disks of setting suns<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 42<\/td>\n a decaying primordial forrest<\/td>\n soaked with moisture<\/td>\n the waning crescent of a close moon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 43<\/td>\n vast yellow steppe smelling of creosote<\/td>\n a turmoil of reddish clouds and gases<\/td>\n silhuettes of floating islands in the far distance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 44<\/td>\n iridescent vastness of transparent foilage<\/td>\n filled with floating seeds<\/td>\n the bright shining of the galactic core<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 45<\/td>\n an endless plain of fine white sand<\/td>\n purple and black<\/td>\n a veil of rain in the distance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 46<\/td>\n hills of purple grass dotted with hulking grazers<\/td>\n a canopy of stars<\/td>\n colorful reflections<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 51<\/td>\n rust colored steep mountains<\/td>\n a foggy purple to dark blue gradient<\/td>\n feathery floating particles that reflect a distant light<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 52<\/td>\n towering pillars piercing through the mist<\/td>\n scatterd grey clouds and beams of sun light<\/td>\n a hazy premonition of what might be tomorrow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 53<\/td>\n dusty rubble and harsh craters<\/td>\n a perfect gradient from dark blue to almost white<\/td>\n some fog far in the distance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 54<\/td>\n dunes of colorful sands like ground marble<\/td>\n a dull grey<\/td>\n multicolored clouds bathed in sunlight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 55<\/td>\n a sea of white dunes<\/td>\n a gradient of light blue to almost black<\/td>\n the plume of a space ship, rocketing into the sky<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 56<\/td>\n seemingly organic bulging formations<\/td>\n a dazzling bright yellow<\/td>\n looming cubic masses of floating habitats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 61<\/td>\n semi-liquid multicolored plains<\/td>\n swirls of multicolored gases<\/td>\n chromium reflections of a ship passing by at low altitude<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 62<\/td>\n vast terrasses of grey slate<\/td>\n a low haze of blue<\/td>\n the notion of deep space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 63<\/td>\n floating islands of rock on a sea of lava<\/td>\n a dull, monotonous light blue<\/td>\n some pink reptilian flyers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 64<\/td>\n a large coastal delta, with mangroves and occasional villages<\/td>\n a gradient from orange to red<\/td>\n the hazy silhuette of a close by artificial world<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 65<\/td>\n a semi-liquid oily surface<\/td>\n a gradient from sulfuric yellow to cobalt blue<\/td>\n towering stalagmites of the arcology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 66<\/td>\n monumental ice capped mountains<\/td>\n criss-crossed with red stripes<\/td>\n the shining swirl of the galaxy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n